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1 --[[
2 LuCI - Utility library
3
4 Description:
5 Several common useful Lua functions
6
7 FileId:
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10 License:
11 Copyright 2008 Steven Barth <steven@midlink.org>
12
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25 ]]--
26
27 --- LuCI utility functions.
28 module("luci.util", package.seeall)
29
30 --
31 -- Pythonic string formatting extension
32 --
33 getmetatable("").__mod = function(a, b)
34 if not b then
35 return a
36 elseif type(b) == "table" then
37 return a:format(unpack(b))
38 else
39 return a:format(b)
40 end
41 end
42
43
44 --
45 -- Class helper routines
46 --
47
48 --- Create a Class object (Python-style object model).
49 -- The class object can be instantiated by calling itself.
50 -- Any class functions or shared parameters can be attached to this object.
51 -- Attaching a table to the class object makes this table shared between
52 -- all instances of this class. For object parameters use the __init__ function.
53 -- Classes can inherit member functions and values from a base class.
54 -- Class can be instantiated by calling them. All parameters will be passed
55 -- to the __init__ function of this class - if such a function exists.
56 -- The __init__ function must be used to set any object parameters that are not shared
57 -- with other objects of this class. Any return values will be ignored.
58 -- @param base The base class to inherit from (optional)
59 -- @return A class object
60 -- @see instanceof
61 -- @see clone
62 function class(base)
63 local class = {}
64
65 local create = function(class, ...)
66 local inst = {}
67 setmetatable(inst, {__index = class})
68
69 if inst.__init__ then
70 local stat, err = copcall(inst.__init__, inst, ...)
71 if not stat then
72 error(err)
73 end
74 end
75
76 return inst
77 end
78
79 local classmeta = {__call = create}
80
81 if base then
82 classmeta.__index = base
83 end
84
85 setmetatable(class, classmeta)
86 return class
87 end
88
89 --- Test whether the given object is an instance of the given class.
90 -- @param object Object instance
91 -- @param class Class object to test against
92 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the object is an instance
93 -- @see class
94 -- @see clone
95 function instanceof(object, class)
96 local meta = getmetatable(object)
97 while meta and meta.__index do
98 if meta.__index == class then
99 return true
100 end
101 meta = getmetatable(meta.__index)
102 end
103 return false
104 end
105
106
107 --
108 -- Scope manipulation routines
109 --
110
111 --- Replace a function scope with a shallow copy of itself.
112 -- This is useful if you want to get rid of several unwanted side effects
113 -- while changing the scope of a certain Lua function.
114 -- @param f Lua function
115 function resfenv(f)
116 setfenv(f, clone(getfenv(f)))
117 end
118
119 --- Store given object associated with given key in the scope of a function.
120 -- @param f Lua function
121 -- @param key String value containg the key of the object to store
122 -- @param obj Object to store in the scope
123 -- @return Always nil
124 -- @see updfenv
125 -- @see resfenv
126 function extfenv(f, key, obj)
127 local scope = getfenv(f)
128 scope[key] = obj
129 end
130
131 --- Extend the scope of a function with the contents of a table
132 -- @param f Lua function
133 -- @param key String value containg the key of the object to store
134 -- @param obj Object to store in the scope
135 -- @return Always nil
136 -- @see extfenv
137 -- @see resfenv
138 function updfenv(f, extscope)
139 update(getfenv(f), extscope)
140 end
141
142 --- Create a new or get an already existing thread local store associated with
143 -- the current active coroutine. A thread local store is private a table object
144 -- whose values can't be accessed from outside of the running coroutine.
145 -- @return Table value representing the corresponding thread local store
146 function threadlocal()
147 local tbl = {}
148
149 local function get(self, key)
150 local c = coroutine.running()
151 local thread = coxpt[c] or c or 0
152 if not rawget(self, thread) then
153 return nil
154 end
155 return rawget(self, thread)[key]
156 end
157
158 local function set(self, key, value)
159 local c = coroutine.running()
160 local thread = coxpt[c] or c or 0
161 if not rawget(self, thread) then
162 rawset(self, thread, {})
163 end
164 rawget(self, thread)[key] = value
165 end
166
167 setmetatable(tbl, {__index = get, __newindex = set, __mode = "k"})
168
169 return tbl
170 end
171
172
173 --
174 -- Debugging routines
175 --
176
177 --- Write given object to stderr.
178 -- @param obj Value to write to stderr
179 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the write operation was successful
180 function perror(obj)
181 return io.stderr:write(tostring(obj) .. "\n")
182 end
183
184 --- Recursively dumps a table to stdout, useful for testing and debugging.
185 -- @param t Table value to dump
186 -- @param i Number of tabs to prepend to each line
187 -- @return Always nil
188 function dumptable(t, i, seen)
189 i = i or 0
190 seen = seen or setmetatable({}, {__mode="k"})
191
192 for k,v in pairs(t) do
193 perror(string.rep("\t", i) .. tostring(k), tostring(v))
194 if type(v) == "table" then
195 if not seen[v] then
196 seen[v] = true
197 dumptable(v, i+1, seen)
198 else
199 perror(string.rep("\t", i) .. "*** RECURSION ***")
200 end
201 end
202 end
203 end
204
205
206 --
207 -- String and data manipulation routines
208 --
209
210 --- Escapes all occurrences of the given character in given string.
211 -- @param s String value containing unescaped characters
212 -- @param c String value with character to escape (optional, defaults to "\")
213 -- @return String value with each occurrence of character escaped with "\"
214 function escape(s, c)
215 c = c or "\\"
216 return s:gsub(c, "\\" .. c)
217 end
218
219 --- Create valid XML PCDATA from given string.
220 -- @param value String value containing the data to escape
221 -- @return String value containing the escaped data
222 function pcdata(value)
223 if not value then return end
224 value = tostring(value)
225 value = value:gsub("&", "&amp;")
226 value = value:gsub('"', "&quot;")
227 value = value:gsub("'", "&apos;")
228 value = value:gsub("<", "&lt;")
229 return value:gsub(">", "&gt;")
230 end
231
232 --- Strip HTML tags from given string.
233 -- @param value String containing the HTML text
234 -- @return String with HTML tags stripped of
235 function striptags(s)
236 return pcdata(s:gsub("</?[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_%-]*[^>]*>", " "):gsub("%s+", " "))
237 end
238
239 --- Splits given string on a defined separator sequence and return a table
240 -- containing the resulting substrings. The optional max parameter specifies
241 -- the number of bytes to process, regardless of the actual length of the given
242 -- string. The optional last parameter, regex, specifies whether the separator
243 -- sequence is interpreted as regular expression.
244 -- @param str String value containing the data to split up
245 -- @param pat String with separator pattern (optional, defaults to "\n")
246 -- @param max Maximum times to split (optional)
247 -- @param regex Boolean indicating whether to interpret the separator
248 -- pattern as regular expression (optional, default is false)
249 -- @return Table containing the resulting substrings
250 function split(str, pat, max, regex)
251 pat = pat or "\n"
252 max = max or #str
253
254 local t = {}
255 local c = 1
256
257 if #str == 0 then
258 return {""}
259 end
260
261 if #pat == 0 then
262 return nil
263 end
264
265 if max == 0 then
266 return str
267 end
268
269 repeat
270 local s, e = str:find(pat, c, not regex)
271 max = max - 1
272 if s and max < 0 then
273 table.insert(t, str:sub(c))
274 else
275 table.insert(t, str:sub(c, s and s - 1))
276 end
277 c = e and e + 1 or #str + 1
278 until not s or max < 0
279
280 return t
281 end
282
283 --- Remove leading and trailing whitespace from given string value.
284 -- @param str String value containing whitespace padded data
285 -- @return String value with leading and trailing space removed
286 function trim(str)
287 local s = str:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "%1")
288 return s
289 end
290
291 --- Parse certain units from the given string and return the canonical integer
292 -- value or 0 if the unit is unknown. Upper- or lower case is irrelevant.
293 -- Recognized units are:
294 -- o "y" - one year (60*60*24*366)
295 -- o "m" - one month (60*60*24*31)
296 -- o "w" - one week (60*60*24*7)
297 -- o "d" - one day (60*60*24)
298 -- o "h" - one hour (60*60)
299 -- o "min" - one minute (60)
300 -- o "kb" - one kilobyte (1024)
301 -- o "mb" - one megabyte (1024*1024)
302 -- o "gb" - one gigabyte (1024*1024*1024)
303 -- o "kib" - one si kilobyte (1000)
304 -- o "mib" - one si megabyte (1000*1000)
305 -- o "gib" - one si gigabyte (1000*1000*1000)
306 -- @param ustr String containing a numerical value with trailing unit
307 -- @return Number containing the canonical value
308 function parse_units(ustr)
309
310 local val = 0
311
312 -- unit map
313 local map = {
314 -- date stuff
315 y = 60 * 60 * 24 * 366,
316 m = 60 * 60 * 24 * 31,
317 w = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,
318 d = 60 * 60 * 24,
319 h = 60 * 60,
320 min = 60,
321
322 -- storage sizes
323 kb = 1024,
324 mb = 1024 * 1024,
325 gb = 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
326
327 -- storage sizes (si)
328 kib = 1000,
329 mib = 1000 * 1000,
330 gib = 1000 * 1000 * 1000
331 }
332
333 -- parse input string
334 for spec in ustr:lower():gmatch("[0-9%.]+[a-zA-Z]*") do
335
336 local num = spec:gsub("[^0-9%.]+$","")
337 local spn = spec:gsub("^[0-9%.]+", "")
338
339 if map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] then
340 val = val + num * ( map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] )
341 else
342 val = val + num
343 end
344 end
345
346
347 return val
348 end
349
350 --- Combines two or more numerically indexed tables into one.
351 -- @param tbl1 Table value to combine
352 -- @param tbl2 Table value to combine
353 -- @param ... More tables to combine
354 -- @return Table value containing all values of given tables
355 function combine(...)
356 local result = {}
357 for i, a in ipairs(arg) do
358 for j, v in ipairs(a) do
359 table.insert(result, v)
360 end
361 end
362 return result
363 end
364
365 --- Checks whether the given table contains the given value.
366 -- @param table Table value
367 -- @param value Value to search within the given table
368 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the given value occurs within table
369 function contains(table, value)
370 for k, v in pairs(table) do
371 if value == v then
372 return k
373 end
374 end
375 return false
376 end
377
378 --- Update values in given table with the values from the second given table.
379 -- Both table are - in fact - merged together.
380 -- @param t Table which should be updated
381 -- @param updates Table containing the values to update
382 -- @return Always nil
383 function update(t, updates)
384 for k, v in pairs(updates) do
385 t[k] = v
386 end
387 end
388
389 --- Retrieve all keys of given associative table.
390 -- @param t Table to extract keys from
391 -- @return Sorted table containing the keys
392 function keys(t)
393 local keys = { }
394 if t then
395 for k, _ in kspairs(t) do
396 table.insert( keys, k )
397 end
398 end
399 return keys
400 end
401
402 --- Clones the given object and return it's copy.
403 -- @param object Table value to clone
404 -- @param deep Boolean indicating whether to do recursive cloning
405 -- @return Cloned table value
406 function clone(object, deep)
407 local copy = {}
408
409 for k, v in pairs(object) do
410 if deep and type(v) == "table" then
411 v = clone(v, deep)
412 end
413 copy[k] = v
414 end
415
416 setmetatable(copy, getmetatable(object))
417
418 return copy
419 end
420
421
422 --- Create a dynamic table which automatically creates subtables.
423 -- @return Dynamic Table
424 function dtable()
425 return setmetatable({}, { __index =
426 function(tbl, key)
427 return rawget(tbl, key)
428 or rawget(rawset(tbl, key, dtable()), key)
429 end
430 })
431 end
432
433
434 -- Serialize the contents of a table value.
435 function _serialize_table(t, seen)
436 assert(not seen[t], "Recursion detected.")
437 seen[t] = true
438
439 local data = ""
440 for k, v in pairs(t) do
441 k = serialize_data(k, seen)
442 v = serialize_data(v, seen)
443 data = data .. ( #data > 0 and ", " or "" ) ..
444 '[' .. k .. '] = ' .. v
445 end
446 return data
447 end
448
449 --- Recursively serialize given data to lua code, suitable for restoring
450 -- with loadstring().
451 -- @param val Value containing the data to serialize
452 -- @return String value containing the serialized code
453 -- @see restore_data
454 -- @see get_bytecode
455 function serialize_data(val, seen)
456 seen = seen or setmetatable({}, {__mode="k"})
457
458 if val == nil then
459 return "nil"
460 elseif type(val) == "number" then
461 return val
462 elseif type(val) == "string" then
463 return string.format("%q", val)
464 elseif type(val) == "boolean" then
465 return val and "true" or "false"
466 elseif type(val) == "function" then
467 return string.format("loadstring(%q)", get_bytecode(val))
468 elseif type(val) == "table" then
469 return "{ " .. _serialize_table(val, seen) .. " }"
470 else
471 return '"[unhandled data type:' .. type(val) .. ']"'
472 end
473 end
474
475 --- Restore data previously serialized with serialize_data().
476 -- @param str String containing the data to restore
477 -- @return Value containing the restored data structure
478 -- @see serialize_data
479 -- @see get_bytecode
480 function restore_data(str)
481 return loadstring("return " .. str)()
482 end
483
484
485 --
486 -- Byte code manipulation routines
487 --
488
489 --- Return the current runtime bytecode of the given data. The byte code
490 -- will be stripped before it is returned.
491 -- @param val Value to return as bytecode
492 -- @return String value containing the bytecode of the given data
493 function get_bytecode(val)
494 local code
495
496 if type(val) == "function" then
497 code = string.dump(val)
498 else
499 code = string.dump( loadstring( "return " .. serialize_data(val) ) )
500 end
501
502 return code and strip_bytecode(code)
503 end
504
505 --- Strips unnescessary lua bytecode from given string. Information like line
506 -- numbers and debugging numbers will be discarded. Original version by
507 -- Peter Cawley (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg01158.html)
508 -- @param code String value containing the original lua byte code
509 -- @return String value containing the stripped lua byte code
510 function strip_bytecode(code)
511 local version, format, endian, int, size, ins, num, lnum = code:byte(5, 12)
512 local subint
513 if endian == 1 then
514 subint = function(code, i, l)
515 local val = 0
516 for n = l, 1, -1 do
517 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
518 end
519 return val, i + l
520 end
521 else
522 subint = function(code, i, l)
523 local val = 0
524 for n = 1, l, 1 do
525 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
526 end
527 return val, i + l
528 end
529 end
530
531 local strip_function
532 strip_function = function(code)
533 local count, offset = subint(code, 1, size)
534 local stripped, dirty = string.rep("\0", size), offset + count
535 offset = offset + count + int * 2 + 4
536 offset = offset + int + subint(code, offset, int) * ins
537 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
538 for n = 1, count do
539 local t
540 t, offset = subint(code, offset, 1)
541 if t == 1 then
542 offset = offset + 1
543 elseif t == 4 then
544 offset = offset + size + subint(code, offset, size)
545 elseif t == 3 then
546 offset = offset + num
547 elseif t == 254 or t == 9 then
548 offset = offset + lnum
549 end
550 end
551 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
552 stripped = stripped .. code:sub(dirty, offset - 1)
553 for n = 1, count do
554 local proto, off = strip_function(code:sub(offset, -1))
555 stripped, offset = stripped .. proto, offset + off - 1
556 end
557 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, int) * int + int
558 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
559 for n = 1, count do
560 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size + int * 2
561 end
562 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
563 for n = 1, count do
564 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size
565 end
566 stripped = stripped .. string.rep("\0", int * 3)
567 return stripped, offset
568 end
569
570 return code:sub(1,12) .. strip_function(code:sub(13,-1))
571 end
572
573
574 --
575 -- Sorting iterator functions
576 --
577
578 function _sortiter( t, f )
579 local keys = { }
580
581 for k, v in pairs(t) do
582 table.insert( keys, k )
583 end
584
585 local _pos = 0
586 local _len = table.getn( keys )
587
588 table.sort( keys, f )
589
590 return function()
591 _pos = _pos + 1
592 if _pos <= _len then
593 return keys[_pos], t[keys[_pos]]
594 end
595 end
596 end
597
598 --- Return a key, value iterator which returns the values sorted according to
599 -- the provided callback function.
600 -- @param t The table to iterate
601 -- @param f A callback function to decide the order of elements
602 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
603 function spairs(t,f)
604 return _sortiter( t, f )
605 end
606
607 --- Return a key, value iterator for the given table.
608 -- The table pairs are sorted by key.
609 -- @param t The table to iterate
610 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
611 function kspairs(t)
612 return _sortiter( t )
613 end
614
615 --- Return a key, value iterator for the given table.
616 -- The table pairs are sorted by value.
617 -- @param t The table to iterate
618 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
619 function vspairs(t)
620 return _sortiter( t, function (a,b) return t[a] < t[b] end )
621 end
622
623
624 --
625 -- System utility functions
626 --
627
628 --- Test whether the current system is operating in big endian mode.
629 -- @return Boolean value indicating whether system is big endian
630 function bigendian()
631 return string.byte(string.dump(function() end), 7) == 0
632 end
633
634 --- Execute given commandline and gather stdout.
635 -- @param command String containing command to execute
636 -- @return String containing the command's stdout
637 function exec(command)
638 local pp = io.popen(command)
639 local data = pp:read("*a")
640 pp:close()
641
642 return data
643 end
644
645 --- Return a line-buffered iterator over the output of given command.
646 -- @param command String containing the command to execute
647 -- @return Iterator
648 function execi(command)
649 local pp = io.popen(command)
650
651 return pp and function()
652 local line = pp:read()
653
654 if not line then
655 pp:close()
656 end
657
658 return line
659 end
660 end
661
662 -- Deprecated
663 function execl(command)
664 local pp = io.popen(command)
665 local line = ""
666 local data = {}
667
668 while true do
669 line = pp:read()
670 if (line == nil) then break end
671 table.insert(data, line)
672 end
673 pp:close()
674
675 return data
676 end
677
678 --- Returns the absolute path to LuCI base directory.
679 -- @return String containing the directory path
680 function libpath()
681 return luci.fs.dirname(require("luci.debug").__file__)
682 end
683
684
685 --
686 -- Coroutine safe xpcall and pcall versions modified for Luci
687 -- original version:
688 -- coxpcall 1.13 - Copyright 2005 - Kepler Project (www.keplerproject.org)
689 --
690 -- Copyright © 2005 Kepler Project.
691 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
692 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
693 -- to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
694 -- the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
695 -- and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
696 -- Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
697 --
698 -- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
699 -- included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
700 --
701 -- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
702 -- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
703 -- OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
704 -- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
705 -- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
706 -- TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
707 -- OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
708
709 local performResume, handleReturnValue
710 local oldpcall, oldxpcall = pcall, xpcall
711 coxpt = {}
712 setmetatable(coxpt, {__mode = "kv"})
713
714 -- Identity function for copcall
715 local function copcall_id(trace, ...)
716 return ...
717 end
718
719 --- This is a coroutine-safe drop-in replacement for Lua's "xpcall"-function
720 -- @param f Lua function to be called protected
721 -- @param err Custom error handler
722 -- @param ... Parameters passed to the function
723 -- @return A boolean whether the function call succeeded and the return
724 -- values of either the function or the error handler
725 function coxpcall(f, err, ...)
726 local res, co = oldpcall(coroutine.create, f)
727 if not res then
728 local params = {...}
729 local newf = function() return f(unpack(params)) end
730 co = coroutine.create(newf)
731 end
732 local c = coroutine.running()
733 coxpt[co] = coxpt[c] or c or 0
734
735 return performResume(err, co, ...)
736 end
737
738 --- This is a coroutine-safe drop-in replacement for Lua's "pcall"-function
739 -- @param f Lua function to be called protected
740 -- @param ... Parameters passed to the function
741 -- @return A boolean whether the function call succeeded and the returns
742 -- values of the function or the error object
743 function copcall(f, ...)
744 return coxpcall(f, copcall_id, ...)
745 end
746
747 -- Handle return value of protected call
748 function handleReturnValue(err, co, status, ...)
749 if not status then
750 return false, err(debug.traceback(co, (...)), ...)
751 end
752 if coroutine.status(co) == 'suspended' then
753 return performResume(err, co, coroutine.yield(...))
754 else
755 return true, ...
756 end
757 end
758
759 -- Resume execution of protected function call
760 function performResume(err, co, ...)
761 return handleReturnValue(err, co, coroutine.resume(co, ...))
762 end